Ignacio R. Covelo

This study uses chemogenetic techniques to show that the ventral pallidum-nucleus accumbens shell pathway modulates sucrose consumption without affecting food-seeking motivation in female rats.

This study investigates the role of the lateral hypothalamus and orexinergic signaling in the paraventricular thalamus in attributing incentive salience to reward cues using Pavlovian conditioned approach behavior in rats.

This study shows that the PrL-PVT pathway modulates incentive value attribution to reward-cues in rats, with distinct effects in sign-trackers and goal-trackers.